I read a fan bulletin board once, and somebody said I had a face like a potato, so I never went back on there.

It always surprised me that I was getting acting work.

I hadn't even watched '24' before, and the audition was kind of far away. When I got the material, there wasn't a character yet, so it almost seemed like an assistant to Jack Bauer saying, 'Yes, sir. No, sir.'

Chloe is really just like an exaggerated aspect of myself.

I told my agents that I didn't want to go on the audition. But as that was happening I called my mom, who has been watching the show from the beginning, and my mom said, 'It's the coolest show. You have to go.'

I read a fan bulletin board once, and somebody said I had a face like a potato, so I never went back on there.

I've been a weirdo since I was a kid.

The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that she's not just annoying. It's that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn't have time because she has so much going on in her brain.

'24' is a pretty serious show - there isn't a lot of improv that is happening. Having said that, I do play around with the delivery. A lot of the humor comes from playing a character who is very furious and really up in her own brain and in a serious situation. That is humorous to me.

'24' is not an anti-government show, really. We've always relied on Jack to fight for the greater good in his own way, and at times, '24' is very patriotic. For me personally, I definitely pay attention to things in a different way.

I always love performing live, and that's what I was doing that started getting me acting parts, so I still find time do it.

I don't like magic.

I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.

I had fun doing a lot of low-budget movies and web series. And I got back into stand-up where I started.

I have to paint at least two times a week, and there's not enough time in the day to do everything.

I like America. I think it's pretty cool.

I like America. I think it's pretty cool. I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.

I need to see where I am physically and practicing with NHL players is the best way to find that out.

I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.

I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.

I'm doing stand-up comedy. I'm working on a one-woman show about how I don't like my baby. There is a period of time where a baby is born where the next 3 months is harrowing. A lot of people say it's the most wonderful time, but for me it was harrowing.

I'm not married and I don't think that's going to work out for me. I'm not even bitter, I'm just exhausted.

My stand-up has always been very character-based. I'm not really the kind of person that's like, 'Hey, here's what's on my mind! Tip your waitress!' I would create the jokes based on the character I was playing. It was always a performance-based thing for me.

The really cool challenge of '24' was learning on camera how to be a dramatic actress. The biggest difficulty was the industry side of things. I was very lucky that I had Joel Surnow, one of the creators of '24,' in my corner. Early on, the Fox executives couldn't believe that I was on the show.

To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.

When you go to auditions, pretend you already have the job and you're just presenting - almost like you're at the table read. Don't go in with an air of, 'Please like me,' or, 'Please hire me.' You're like, 'Here's my take on it. Take it or leave it. I've got a lot of other things to do today.'

Oblivion waits without beckoning or threatening.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

Lyndon Johnson is not a comfortable model for President Obama to imitate. He is an all-but-forgotten president - pilloried for the failed war in Vietnam and criticized for grandiose reforms conservatives denounce as the epitome of federal social engineering that costs too much and does too little.

There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Life is as it is, we take it to be hard or easy. It's all about our perception, attitude and level of gratitude.

Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.

If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

In for a penny, in for a pound

I started making remixes for every specific girl I wanted to date. That's how I learned how to use Pro Tools, and then I started making my own music.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.

My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.

You cant study to be an entrepreneur. Sometimes you just have to jump.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that the government, any government, thinks it has the ability to change the definition of an institution like marriage.

Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

I do my best to stay away from dairy, especially ice cream. I've become a cookie monster whenever I want to mess around and eat something cheap.

Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.